China primary goal was limiting any binding commitments with the potential to impinge on its industrial growth.
Such credits would also provide incentives to developing countries to consider binding commitments under any future international regime.
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Under the Kyoto protocol of the UN climate convention, all developed countries save America must make binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Legally binding commitments reached in antitrust decisions play a very important role in our enforcement policy because they allow for rapid solutions to competition problems.
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President Bush should reaffirm the Reagan Administration policy opposing framework agreements which establish binding commitments bereft of detailed implementing arrangements, in particular those that bear upon the verifiability of such accords.
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That is partly because the treaty left out big emissions sources such as deforestation (see article), but also because potential participants were put off by the idea of internationally binding commitments.
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The government has explicitly ruled out buying credits in the carbon market from abroad, which is the only way to meet Canada's legally binding commitments under the Kyoto protocol if it fails to meet its targets.
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Does he feel that the United States and other nations of the world have failed when the goal was to try to come up with a treaty that actually had binding commitments, rather than setting up goals for those down the road?
Additionally, at the time of execution of definitive agreements with respect to our proposal, we expect to provide binding financing commitments from debt and equity financing sources in the form customary for a transaction of this type.
If a company has breached commitments made legally binding by way of an Article 9 decision, it may be fined up to 10% of its total annual turnover.
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This means we need to see commitments towards real emission reductions that are binding and real financing for adaptation in the most vulnerable countries.
Ambassador SATTERFIELD: Steve, the Senate's forces agreement we have with NATO is an agreement that contains explicit, legally binding, multiple - or reciprocal, rather - commitments.
Start made dramatic reductions in nuclear forces of some 80% but the key point at this moment is that it contains binding agreements on verification and when the treaty runs out so do those commitments.
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